Moderate Muslims — Speak Up or Get Lumped In with The Islamo-Fascists

A recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll showed that the American people are becoming progressively more hostile towards Muslims. For American Muslims, these are not encouraging numbers:

“Thirty-nine percent of respondents…said they felt at least some prejudice against Muslims. The same percentage favored requiring Muslims, including U.S. citizens, to carry a special ID “as a means of preventing terrorist attacks in the United States.” About one-third said U.S. Muslims were sympathetic to al-Qaeda, and 22% said they wouldn’t want Muslims as neighbors.”

Now, why are we seeing this increasing level of hostility toward Muslims when the overwhelming majority of practitioners of Islam in the United States are peaceful, decent folk?

I’d suggest that it’s being caused by two things: Islamo-Fascists making the news for behaving badly and moderate Muslims refusing to speak up about it.

As far as the Islamo-Fascists go, you can hardly turn on the TV or pick up a paper without reading about a suicide bombing, honor killing, beheading, mass murder, or forced conversion committed by Muslims in the name of Allah. Maybe moderate Muslims are hesitant to speak up, but the extremists don’t hesitate to tell the world that Islam is all about murder, death, and savagery. They also seem to have no reservations about acting on their beliefs.

Let me show you what I mean. What you’re about to read are 5 headlines per month taken straight from the daily news section of my blog, Right Wing News, over the last year. As you read these Islam related headlines, keep in mind that it would have been easy to post 3 or 4 times as many items for any given month.

September, 2005

Ditch Holocaust Day, Advisers Urge Blair Because It Is Offensive To Muslims

Jews And Freemasons Controlled War On Iraq Says Muslim Adviser To Tony Blair

Suicide Bomber Says He Was Kidnapped, Drugged, And Beaten To Be Forced To Take The Mission

The United States And Its Allies Have Thwarted At Least 10 Serious Al Qaeda Terrorist Plots Since Sept. 11, 2001, Including Never-Before-Disclosed Plans To Use Hijacked Commercial Airliners To Attack The East And West Coasts In 2002 And 2003, President Bush And His Aides Said

Police Investigate New York Subway Terror Threat

India’s First Female Bomber Strikes

Chechen Terrorists Murder 85 In Russia

Bombs Kill More Than 40 In Indian Capital

November, 2005

Rioting Spreads To 300 Towns In France

Aussie Terrorists Had Stockpiled Enough Chemicals To Make At Least 15 Large Bombs To Be Used Against Selected Targets

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England Afraid To Fly Its Own Flag. Following Threats By Extremist Islamic Group, Several Corporations, Chain Of Pubs Ban England Flag

London: Terror Cell ‘Was Planning Nerve Gas Attack On Capital’

No Music, No Dancing, No Football As Muslim Law Takes Over From Reign Of The Warlords

40 Percent Of The Moroccan Youth In The Netherlands Reject Western Values And Democracy. Six To Seven Percent Are Prepared To Use Force To Defend Islam.

Hamas: Islam Will Conquer US And Britain

July, 2006

Poll: 77% Of Palestinians Back The Kidnapping Of Corporal Gilad Shalid And 60 Percent Back Rocket Attacks On Israel

Joking Muslim Cleric Mocks Victims Of London Blasts

Terrorist Bombs Kill 190 In India

67% Of Iranians Say Israel “Is Illegitimate And Should Not Exist.” 9% Disagree.

Hezbollah Fires Rocket-A-Minute At Israel

August, 2006

From Iran: “Death To America!”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei: ‘America Can Expect A Resounding Slap And A Devastating Fist-Blow From The Muslim Nation’

British Police Arrested 24 People In Overnight Raids And Said On Thursday They Had Foiled A Plot To Commit “Mass Murder” By Blowing Up Several Aircraft Flying Over The Atlantic Ocean To The United States

Now, after reading all that and more, what would you expect the average American to think about Islam? Especially when thousands of Muslims will riot over cartoons featuring Muhammad, but few will protest terrorist attacks in the name of Allah? Can you blame Americans for being suspicious of Muslims when groups like CAIR complain about the use of the word “Islamo-Fascism,” but don’t seem to have much to say about actual Muslims advocating Fascism in the name of Islam? What are Americans supposed to think when they see people getting their heads cut off in the name of Allah while moderate Muslims simply shrug their shoulders and declare that Islam is a religion of peace?

Among Americans, there is a growing and hardening suspicion that moderate Muslims are really nothing but “moderate” Muslims who talk about peace while they tacitly support terrorism. There’s a simple way for Muslims to change that perception. All they need to do is regularly condemn terrorism, condemn Sharia, condemn Hamas, condemn Hezbollah, and condemn Al-Qaeda. Maybe it’s unfair that Muslims should be asked to do that and unfair that what extremists are doing should reflect badly upon Muslims who don’t share their beliefs. However, fair or unfair, more moderate Muslims need to speak out, loudly, about their disagreements with the Islamo-Fascists or regrettably, the number of people in the United States and across the world that are hostile to Islam is only going to continue to increase.